From this activity, students learned that it is not fair, nor productive, to make judgements and decisions based on fear and suspicion.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Hunting Communists
On Monday, students participated in an activity to help them gain an understanding of the feelings of suspicion among Americans in the 1940's and 1950's regarding communism in the United States. Students were each given a folded index card, most of which were blank. A few cards however, had a red dot on the inside, which meant that they were communists. Students were then asked to form groups with other students, as large as possible, without any communists in them. Any group that had successfully managed to keep out "communists" won. At the same time, any "communist" who had successfully infiltrated a group won as well.
From this activity, students learned that it is not fair, nor productive, to make judgements and decisions based on fear and suspicion.
From this activity, students learned that it is not fair, nor productive, to make judgements and decisions based on fear and suspicion.
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4 comments:
This was really fun! It really helped me learn how the reasons people were accused of being communists were just suspicion and not facts.
I think this was so much fun! Esepically if you were a communist and you tricked your friends!(:
this was fun, learnded how untrusting people became in the time period and how easy it was for a communist to hide among people against communism (ignore terribal spelling if there is any)
That activity was so fun.Also i am lucky i was never a communist :)and it also helped me understand how communist worked.
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